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tude," Agassiz says. He was there a most happy and 

 successful young man, using all the scientific resources 

 existing in that large and progressive city ; drawing 

 round him comrades of the University, and even pro- 

 fessors ; and receiving visits from naturalists of renown, 

 including the great anatomist Meckel. His room in the 

 house of Db'llinger, being the largest, was used as 

 lecture room, assembly room, laboratory, and museum. 

 Some one was always coming or going ; the half-dozen 

 chairs were covered with books, piled one upon another, 

 hardly one being left for use, and visitors were fre- 

 quently obliged to remove books and put them on the 

 floor ; the bed, also, \vas used as a seat, and as a recep- 

 tacle for specimens, drawings, and papers. According 

 to Agassiz, the tobacco smoke was sometimes so thick 

 it might have been cut with a knife. 



Agassiz was the most prominent among the students. 

 His acquaintance was courted by all. He was specially 

 considered with much pride by all the Swiss students, 

 and was welcome both in the rooms and yards of the 

 University, and at the students' clubs, " Bierbrauerei," 

 and fencing rooms. He was considered a most amiable 

 companion, never losing his temper, always smiling and 

 apparently contented and happy. It is no wonder that 

 he remembered so vividly his student life at Munich, 

 and was always grateful for it. Although at Munich he 

 learned embryology from Dollinger, who gave him per- 

 sonal instructions in the use of the microscope, and 

 followed the lectures of the great philosopher Schelling, 

 as well as the fascinating teaching of Oken, with his 

 a priori conceptions of the relations of the three king- 



